On the Mark Golf Podcast

In a weekly podcast, Mark Immelman reviews the most recent PGA TOUR event and highlights lessons you can glean from the world's leading golfers. In Episode 40 Mark revisits the 2019 President's Cup at Royal Melbourne (Australia). Mark shares 7 Course Management insights from former US Open champion and International Assistant Team Captain, Geoff Ogilvy. Ogilvy preached the following to the International Team to help them to navigate around the golf course successfully: Precision over power off the tee, Play from under the Hole on fast greens, Play to the front yardage and not the hole, Stay clear of "Dead Zones", Sharpen up Your bunker play, Chip and Run with various clubs, and Take your medicine. Mark Immelman embellishes on these insights to help you lower your scores.  

Dr. Gregg Steinberg was voted by Golf Digest as one of golf's great masterminds. He has worked with many PGA TOUR professionals including Brandt Snedeker and Brian Gay. Steinberg is a tenured Professor at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee. He joins our podcast to discuss Emotional and Mental Mastery in golf and life. As he delves into the subject he addresses elements like confidence, commitment, bouncing back from slumps in form, overcoming fear and anxiety, controlling temperament and managing expectations for success in golf. He also shares action points like post-shot routines and self-awareness and relaxation.

Chris Green is a PGA Professional and the Director of Instruction at the Glenview Club just north of Chicago. He is widely researched and vastly experienced in the application and use of Launch Monitors in golf instruction. He joins the podcast to discuss the appropriate and correct use of a launch monitor. He delves into the data that launch monitors provide; discusses how different brands can show differing data values and explains the appropriate data matchups and relationships for the correct use of the launch monitor. Specifically he talks about: Clubface Angle, Swing Path, Angle of Attack and Spin Loft and highlights drills for practice and improvement of data and functional golf shots.

In a weekly podcast Mark Immelman reviews the most recent PGA TOUR event and highlights lessons you can glean from the world's leading golfers. In Episode 39, Mark revisits the 2019 Hero World Challenge at Albany in the Bahamas. Mark shares golf swing pivot insights, and a nugget from Gary Player, to help you to compress the ball at impact like Henrik Stenson. Immelman also shows how, in his opinion, Tiger Woods has freed up his golf swing and eliminated the "big miss" off the tee. Both insights will help you to more successful with the Driver.

Jeff Martin is the founder of "Thinking About Golf". He is also the author of "Hogan as it Happened: Setting the Record Straight". Jeff joins our podcast to discuss and share his research and work. He shows how golf swing technique has evolved of the years and he illustrates a number of lessons you can learn from the greats of yesteryear like Ben Hogan and Sam Snead. He also compares and contrasts the "modern day" golf swing (Matthew Wolff and Viktor Hofland) to the swings of the past (Miller Barber and Jimmy Bruen). Jeff addresses Body Pivot, Swing Length and Shaft Plane. He also talks about the effect of improvements in golf equipment technology and the corresponding increase in power off the tee.

Mike Napoleon is a PGA Professional, a golf instructor and the Founder of Catalyst Golf (which became Superspeed Golf). He joins "On the Mark" to delve into the mechanics of improving swing speed for increased power off the tee.  He discusses "Overload/Underload Training" and how Superspeed uses "Overspeed Training" to remove the "Governor" from your golf swing.  He talks about Kinematic Sequencing, Proximal Stability and the transfer of power and Ground Reaction Forces. He addresses the Superspeed Pyramid with an emphasis on Sequencing and Wrist Mechanics. Mike also explains the Superspeed Training Protocols.

In a weekly podcast Mark Immelman reviews the most recent PGA TOUR event and highlights lessons you can glean from the world's leading golfers. In Episode 38, Mark revisits the 2019 RSM Classic in Sea Island, GA. Mark examines tournament-winner Tyler Duncan's golf swing and shows how his stable foot action, and pressure shift, leads to effective swing stability and rotation. Those two elements enhance Duncan's golf swing timing, transition, downswing shaft pitch and ball-striking consistency. Learn how you can improve your footwork to tighten up your downswing and hit better shots.

Dr. Mike Grevlos is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Sioux Falls in South Dakota. He teaches courses in Sport Psychology, Motivation and Emotion, and Behavioral Neurosciences. He joins our podcast to discuss the Psychology of Golf Improvement with specific reference to: How the human brain works and the corresponding movement patterns; How to use the mind constructively in practice and how to practice with purpose; How to understand and control goals and motives, and the Psychology of playing the game.

Bradley Hughes is a former PGA TOUR player and a winner on the global golf stage. Always one of the foremost ball-strikers in the game, he is now one of the leading player instructors on the PGA TOUR. His growing stable of clients includes tournament-winners Russell Knox and Brendan Todd. Bradley prides his teaching on simplicity and a focus on enabling the student to feel and understand what the true golf swing fundamentals are. He discusses his proven approach to turning one's game from negative to positive in this podcast. He shares thoughts on communication, trust and feel. He also addresses a few notable swing myths and misunderstandings of elements in the golf swing, and shares drills how you can ensure you perform certain key moves appropriately. 

In a weekly podcast, Mark Immelman reviews the most recent PGA TOUR event and highlights lessons you can glean from the world's leading golfers. In Episode 37 Mark revisits the 2019 Mayakoba Classic in Playa del Carmen in Mexico. Mark illustrates a few elements from, tournament-winner, Brendan Todd's pitching action that you can employ to improve and enhance your greenside short game play. Mark talks about shaft pitch and plane, timing and the correct use of the legs and pressure shift to improve and time the body pivot, and he shares a drill that you can use to eliminate excess hand and wrist action for better contact and improved distance control and accuracy.